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Mythic Mandarin

紧 (jǐn): meaning and stroke order

紧 (jǐn) means tight, strict, close at hand, near, urgent, tense, hard up, short of money, to tighten.

紧

Simplified
紧
Traditional
緊
Pinyin
jǐn

Stroke order of 紧

紧

  • jǐn tight; strict
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 緊

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 紧

  1. jǐn Traditional 緊
    • tight
    • strict
    • close at hand
    • near
    • urgent
    • tense
    • hard up
    • short of money
    • to tighten

Radical and structure

紧
Radical 糸 (Kangxi radical 120) · 10 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 紧

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).